Bob Huntley RIP

[MCirba]

Thanks Steve.


He lived life large.

[cary lichtenstein]

Bette and I got to play 2 rounds with Bob in the early 2000's, yes, he was the man u wanted to be

[John Mayhugh]

Steve,
Thanks for posting that.

Truth is, that obituary undersells what an interesting life he led.  I know he would have appreciated the mention of Amber & Brinkley.

[Mike Sweeney]

So at the Air Force vs Navy football game tailgates in Annapolis, Maryland this weekend, I now get to say:


"So I hit an 8 iron to the 17th green at Cypress Point, and my friend who was in the Mau Mau uprising met us at the green...."

Man, he was the best.


RIP Uncle Bob

[Terry Lavin]

A real gentleman. Not old, just old school.

[Rich Goodale]

I'm glad Bob got a obituary in the local rag, but as an aficionado of well researched and written obits (particularly in The Daily Telegraph) he will be bemused at how perfunctory The Pine Cone could be.  No insight on his early life.  Nothing but press releases on his time in Southern Africa.  No mention of his play at Nchanga GC.  Nothing of his life in SoCal (playing golf for high stakes with Dean Martin and other members of the Rat Pack).  Nothing of his move to Carmel Valley and Wells Fargo.  Nothing about the world-wide love for him expressed on this thread and elsewhere.


Wherever you are Bob, we love you and miss you.

[Tom_Doak]

Aw darn it, that's a man I hate to see go.


I never met Bob Huntley, and that's my loss. I've been blessed to spend a lot of time on the Monterey Peninsula in my life, but not so much since Golf Club Stlas got started.  (I've been busy!). So I never took him up on an invitation to play golf.  I have a lot more invitations than time.


Nevertheless, I had a fair amount of sitemail conversation with Bob over the years, as he encouraged me to get involved at MPCC, and then agreed with me that they might not be a great client!   In all our conversations it was clear he only had my best interests at heart, and I can tell you, that's a lot more rare than finding a wonderfully interesting host.  Some hosts have ulterior motives.  Bob's only motives seemed to be golf and an interesting day.


I'm fortunate to have met a few other people like that in my career; some of them (like Bill Shean and George Peper) are the only reason I ever had a career!  I try to remember them by hosting people I don't know when I can do so.  May you all be as good hosts as Bob Huntley, and all for the right reasons. 

[Tom_Doak]

Also, I intend to get to Nchanga and to Zimbabwe at the end of next year, in Bob Huntley's memory.  Who's in with me?

[Rich Goodale]

Also, I intend to get to Nchanga and to Zimbabwe at the end of next year, in Bob Huntley's memory.  Who's in with me?

Tom


I might put that in my bucket list given that my first contact with Bob was in his response to my post on this website in which I shared Peter Dobreiner's "World Top Ten" which included Nchanga.

That just might be a road trip which would put Dornoch (1978), Bandon (2000), Mullen (2014) And Fernandina Beach (2016) to shame.......


Rich

[Steve Wilson]

Playing the Creek Club with Mike Sweeney in 2004 after my heart attack, I told him my life would ever be incomplete because I was unable to make the gathering at Painswick that April.  Since then, I've played Painswick and so achieved some manner of recompense for that failing.  But...I can never meet Bob Huntley and so I must be reconciled to having missed a greater occasion than anything Painswick could have surrendered.


RIP Mr. Huntley.  I close with envy of those who knew him, especially those who knew him well, and with a shared sense of failure with those who like me never had the pleasure.